Yeah, I did rip off a bad samuel L Jackson movie with that title. I travel around 40% for work. With TSA being well douches now days. I mean you can go through security into militarized HQ eat and drink but you can't bring your drink on the plane without going to jail, but you can BUY one on the plane. Idiots run everything these days. So how do each of you carry store your shaving equipment and what do you pack?
I'm pretty sure you would have to check them. Whenever I travel with my razors, I keep them safe in plastic full-length toothbrush holders. Inside the holders, I wrap them in small amounts of shoeshine cloth. All of that goes together in my toiletry kit (a cheap Dopp Kit bag) and into a check bag. All that said, I haven't had to fly since resuming straight razor shaving, but I don't see it likely that they would give you trouble over it.
It's like a movie theater. You can't bring your $0.50 bag of chips but you can buy their identical $5 bag of chips when you're there. Most just use a disposable bic or 2-blade cartridge. Others mail blades to their destination (or just buy them there). Some have great results with the Gillette Guard single blade cartridge:
For carry-on, I take a cartridge razor. You can check a straight or DE/SE blades if you want so I take a DE if I'm checking a bag. Supposedly, you can carry on a DE/SE razor without blades but I don't want to get the hassle when they want to search my bag to see if I'm trying to smuggle a blade on.
Safety razors cannot be stored in carry on, they can only be in checked luggage. If you are not checking a bag you essentially have three options, take a disposable, mail the blades to where you are going to be staying or buy a pack from a drug store when you get to your destination. http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/08/safety-razors-and-disposable-razors.html I generally pack mine in checked baggage and have never had an issue.
I always keep shaving stuff in my checked luggage, and i only bring stuff i wouldn't mind losing. My daughter had a transplant in England, so we fly there twice a year for follow ups. I hate airport security... Aiport security take away the tiny little pair of scissors (nail clipper size) i use to fit my daughters stoma plates with, and then when we get on the plane, we're given stainless steel cutlery to eat with. "Hey - what type of liquid is in this obviously larger than allowed bottle?" - It's sterilized drinking water for my daughter. "May i analyze the contents by sticking this probe thingy into the bottle?" - No - then it wouldn't be sterile anymore... "Okay. You're cleared to go through." "Hey - What is this stuff? Looks like a chemistry set" - It's medicine for my daughter. "Okay. You're cleared to go through." There's 250 people in line, waiting to go through security - "No sir. Your three year old has to walk through the metal detectors on her own" 5 minutes of agony later: "It's okay. You can carry her throught" Apparently, when you travel from one country to another on a private jet, nobody cares who you are or what you bring into/out of the country. /rant
it's all a facade and not only do you have to take ur shoes off they think ur all sketchy because you're attempting to watch this unattended bin on the conveyor holding 15 grand worth your shit and job dependant priceless data on your electronic devices while 3 Aholes are mummering different things at you about standing like an idiot on yellow footprints propped up as the world's unsexiest ballerina. All while attempting to astutely watch the people in front of you so they can't steal your bin of goods during a taxpayer funded proctologie exam by fred with the IQ of a fresh road killed squirrel.
My past 6 flights (3 of which were in 2014) I've flown with a Gillette 'new' broken down into 3 pieces with 2 DE blades in the bottom of my dopp bag....no issues. Not saying that will be the case for anyone else, just my personal experience. The other 3 were last year.
Checked baggage every time for me. I have enough issues flying if I'm in uniform I don't need to give them any other excuses. Don't even get me started on the time I was stopped due to having cordite and explosives residue on my military issued bag that was on an exercise where things went boom.
I bring an injector in carry on and have had no substantial problems. (Got stopped once at x-ray b/c the tech didn't know what it was.) But, DEs, SEs, and Straights, much like snakes, do not belong in the cabin of a plane. Or, more correctly, the blades don't belong in the cabin. The razors (except the str), minus any blades, are fine in carry on.
Since I'm in the military, I get to check a bag for free. I do agree about the TSA being overzealous. I had probably one or two uses of toothpaste left in a 500 ml tube and got that taken away. Another time, I got Fusion carts and condoms taken away too. I rose hell about that. This was in Egypt and I'm sure those people were just looking for free condoms and Fusion carts. I got my stuff back though.
